Mac Pro

Es­chew­ing the tra­di­tional tower de­sign, the new Mac Pro is cylin­dri­cal, com­ing in at one eighth of the pre­vi­ous model’s size – stand­ing just 9.9 inches tall – but it packs a lot of power. De­signed around a ther­mal core that cools its com­po­nents, the Mac Pro boasts next-gen­er­a­tion Xeon pro­ces­sor op­tions, dual work­sta­tion-class GPUs, Thun­der­bolt 2, PCIe-based flash stor­age and fast ECC mem­ory. Six Thun­der­bolt 2 ports sit at the back; this sec­ond gen­er­a­tion of In­tel’s Thun­der­bolt tech­nol­ogy is flex­i­ble enough to pro­vide a huge 20Gbps of band­width in one di­rec­tion. And each of the six Thun­der­bolt 2 ports can daisy-chain up to six pe­riph­er­als, giv­ing you ac­cess to up to 36 high-per­for­mance pe­riph­er­als. There are also four USB 3.0 ports, two gi­ga­bit Eth­er­net ports, and an HDMI 1.4 port.